Economic Sectors

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Doctors, bankers, teachers

3 types of Tertiary jobs

Secondary Sector

Add values to materials by changing their form. (More valuable commodities)

Subsistence economy

An economic system that involves total self-sufficiency on part of its members

Boserup thesis

Based on the observation that population increases necessitate increased inputs of labor and technology to compensate for reductions in the natural yields of swiffen farming

Tertiary activities

Business and labor specializations that provide services to the primary and secondary sectors and good and services to the general community

Planned Economies

Communist-controlled societies Extreme cases

Primary Sector

Countries under this sector tend to be less wealthy

Intensive subsistence agriculture

Cultivation of small landholdings through the expenditure of great amounts of labor per acre

Market (Commercial) Economies

Dominant in nearly all parts of the world More for selling

AIDS researcher

Example of a Quaternary job

Astronaut

Example of a Quinary job

Africa, south and east Asia, Latin AMerica

Examples of continents with subsistence agriculture

Primary Sector

Extracting something from the Earth

Transhuamnce

Form of seasonal movement of livestock

Fishing, Hunting + Gathering, Mining

Give 3 examples of Primary Sector jobs

Steel making, metalworking, automobile production

Give 3 examples of Secondary Sector jobs

Subsistence Economies

Goods and services are created for the use of the producers and their kinship groups Little or minimal trade

Agriculture

Growing of crops, tending of livestock for subsistence of producers or for sale

Quinary Sector

High-level decision making roles in all types of large organizations High end of information sector (Usually government sponsored)

Secondary Sector

Industrial societies fall under which sector

Extensive subsistence agriculture

Large areas of lands and minimal labor input per hectare

United States of America

Market (commercial) countries? (Though not 100% commercial)

Cuba, North Korea

Planned economy countries?

Tertiary Sector

Post-industrial societies fall under which sector

Primary Sector

Pre-industrial societies fall under which sector

Shifting cultivation

Rotating fields rather than crops

Quaternary Sector

Subset of Tertiary Based on information and research Works in education, govt, management, research (Private company)

Nomadic herding

The wandering but controlled movement of livestock solely dependent on natural forage, is the most extensive type of land use system

Extensive and Intensive

Two chief types of subsistence agriculture:

Nomadic herding and shifting cultivation

Two types of extensive subsistence agriculture

Primary Sector

Which sector is the beginning of the production cycle?

Technology

Workers in MDCs can produce more with less effort because of


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